The next NIST and ARPA/SISTO text retrieval conference
and competition, TREC-5, runs from 1/96 through 11/96.
Query and filtering systems will be tested, including
ranked retrieval of 100 topics from a million documents (2GB).
Participants myst apply by 1/8/96 to Donna Harman
. [IRLIST, 12/4/95.]

Synview is an experimental "filtering" system for
Usenet newsgroups, where each user can rate articles
in order to help others. .
[David Lowe , net-hap, 10/16/95.]

Web Ants is another search engine,
from John Leavitt (funded by Texas Instruments).
. [WEBster, 10/17/95.]

An Internet "meta-search" consumer product with automatic
summarization and abstraction from Limbex won Best of Show and
Best Internet Product at Comdex. See for
a demo and press clippings. [Brian Ulicny ,
11/30/95.]